fed a diet consisting of natural foodstuffs than when main tained on a semipurified ration. Whereas these comparative differences between stock rations and purified diets relative to tumor incidence have been evaluated in terms of carcinogenic compounds and spontaneously appearing tumors, to our knowledge this effect has never been assessed in regards to exposure to sublethal doses of total-bod...

Materials and methods: Fifty-six pigs (60 days old) that tested negative by culture for Salmonella were allocated into four treatment groups and challenged with either Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104 or Salmonella Typhimurium DT193. After challenge, each treatment group was fed one of four feed rations: a ration containing no antimicrobials (Control) or the same ration containing either fl...

This little book is intended to be used as a practical guide-book by patients and nurses especially to enable them to follow the author's ' line ration' scheme of dieting intelligently. In the present edition, the carbohydrate content of the ' line ration' scheme has been doubled, each black line containing 10 gms. of carbohydrates instead of 5. The other essentials in the scheme have been left...

Sequential observations of the light and scanning electron microscopic appearances and labeling index of rat urinary bladder epithelium following freeze ulcérationwere performed for 8 weeks, and the effect of sodium saccharin on this process when fed as 5% of the diet, beginning either immediately or 2 weeks after ulcération, was investigated. All rats treated with freeze ulcérationof the bl...

Background: The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary fat sources on reproductive performance of mature rams. Materials and Methods: Twelve adult rams, with 32 months of age and a mean weight value of 67 kg, were divided into four dietary treatments using a completely randomized design. Dietary treatments included with the study were: 1. ration with 4% soybean oil (A...

Massive database sizes and growing demands for decision support and data mining result in long-running queries in extensible Object-Relational DBMS, particularly in decision support and data warehousing analysis applications. Parallelization of query evaluation is often required for acceptable performance. Yet queries are frequently processed suboptimally due to (1) only coarse or inaccurate es...